Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Omphalotrochidae
Alternative combination: Pleurotomaria obtusispira
Full reference: B. F. Shumard. 1859. Notice of fossils from the Permian strata of Texas and New Mexico obtained by the United States expedition under Capt. John Pope, for boring artesian wells along the 32nd parallel, with descriptions of new species from these strata and the Coal Measures of that region. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis 1:387-402
Belongs to Omphalotrochus according to B. S. Kues 1995
See also Chronic 1953, Girty 1937, Shumard 1859 and Yochelson 1956
Sister taxa: Omphalotrochus alleni, Omphalotrochus antiquus, Omphalotrochus canaliculatus, Omphalotrochus cochisensis, Omphalotrochus hessensis, Omphalotrochus kalitvaensis, Omphalotrochus kalmiussi, Omphalotrochus karakubensis, Omphalotrochus spinosus, Omphalotrochus tabulatus, Omphalotrochus timanicus, Omphalotrochus uerjagensis, Omphalotrochus whitneyi, Omphalotrochus wolfcampensis
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Bolivia (1 collection), Peru (7), United States (37: Kansas, New Mexico, Texas)
• Carboniferous of United States (1: New Mexico)
Total: 46 collections each including a single occurrence
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